Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

That's about 1 metre per brain cell !

 

Teaching staff are still working with the children that are in a family of key workers or children that are too vulnerable to be at home for such an extended period of time.

We’ve got around 25-30 children still attending. I know of another school that still has 200 of its 600 pupils attending.

 

We have similar system here although both parents have to be certified key workers, unless there is only one. Vulnerable children status doesn't exist in the same way, as child services here have a lot more power and so pretty much any child considered to be vulnerable is taken into care - this has caused a lot of legal challenges in the European Court of human rights.

I did make a mistake, grades 1-4 have restarted, but the older students are off until after summer and graded using coursework and predicted grades.

 

I'm not really sure why you get wound up. I give my opinion and explain why. Some disagree with me and that's fair enough. I don't take it personally. I've not insulted anyone or used offensive language, so why get upset. Assuming you're an adult, you are able to just skim past and ignore what I write if it causes you distress.

 

Good news in the bigger scheme of things...

Smith & Nephew's ventilator venture falls flat as Government support pulled

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...kCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

What are you on about? Are you on drugs?

 

"Covid-19 was already spreading in France in late December 2019, a month before the official first cases in the country," the team at Groupe Hospitalier Paris Seine in Saint-Denis wrote in a study published Sunday in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/france-coronavirus-december-death-intl/index.html

 

We seem to be our usual trend bucking selves.

COVID-19 is spreading faster on average in larger cities with the additional implication that, in an uncontrolled outbreak, larger fractions of the population are expected to become infected in more populous urban areas.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10376

 

Is there one thing that would make you think we're back to 'normal'?

For me, it's being able to wander to pub and have a pint. Everything else is trimmings.

 

Looks like they have been on line and bought a bottle of Dettol !!

 

First week of January felt like never before. Tight chest, coughing and every bone in my body ached. Lasted about a week.

I reckon I've had it.

 

There seems to be more indications that it was around before the new year. I wonder if more people have had it than they think. Only an antibody test will tell us.

 

When are we going to get a handle on quarantine... Speaking again to my pal at BA yesterday... full incoming flights from New York. Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington.... on the incoming Barcelona flight, only 50% ope passengers we rewearing masks...

 

This was asked on Question Time on Thursday and the answer was the incoming passengers did not have an significant impact on the statistics. Absolute load of rubbish really but there you are.

 

My partner came back from France mid November and was extremely ill, then I picked it up and have never been so ill in my life, at the time we just put it down to extremely bad case of flu, but looking back who knows! We both had very similar symptoms to covid19 but obviously at the time knew nothing about it...

 

Another question that never gets answered.




Now where is that conspiracy thread?

 

I recently heard some theory/hypothesis that half of Manchester has already had Covid-19. Reason being that residents of chinatown in the city are mostly from Wuhan province originally, and had been travelling back and forth for a good month or two before any lockdown was introduced.

Probably bollocks but I do like to think the nasty cold I had in January was really Coronavirus and that I'm now immune!

 

After 6 weeks of lockdown I'd guess a lot of people are now looking for reasons why they are immune/had it before/anything else they can think of that means they can get out and about a bit more, including me! I fear it might be over-optimism though.